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That one reply in that flame war is still hilarious so many years later. To anyone who didn't get the reference of Putnam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
by mishraprince 5y ago
That one reply in that flame war is still hilarious so many years later. To anyone who didn't get the reference of Putnam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
- bredren 5y agotldr; In 2007, an academic argues with PG and others. After long exchange, academic defensively states their own achievements. Another user challenges academic with GP question, to which academic provides unexpected affirmative response.
- pjerem 5y agoI think you missed the point. Scroll up, it's the same guy :)
- bredren 5y agoHaha. I did. That’s wonderful.
- yuppiemephisto 5y agoI don't agree with that phrasing. A lot of people on that thread seemed sure cperciva was some arrogant dickhead bound for failure, but tarsnap is going a lot stronger than many of them are. Also people in the thread were amazingly rude to him, while he seemed pretty polite to me.
- cperciva 5y agoI think you're giving cperciva too much credit. He was just as arrogant as people thought, and he was definitely defensive.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoI wonder how many people will downvote you without looking at your username?
- gowld 5y agoBut does he refer to himself in the third-person? That's the pinnacle of arrogance.
- cperciva 5y agocperciva rarely refers to himself in the third person, but it does occasionally happen. More often, we refer to ourselves in the first person plural.
- yuppiemephisto 5y agoTIL. Sounded reasonable to me, so quite likely I'm arrogant too. Tarsnap's still there though, so I'd say that's a good defense.
- cperciva 5y agoI didn't say that I was wrong. But I was having a bad day, and I said things in a different and more abrasive way than I normally would.
- abalaji 5y agowow, that’s one helluva response. HN in 2007 seems like a wonderful place
- amznthrwaway 5y agoIt really was. There was also vibrant adjoining professional community. It’s part of why I find it so sad that the moderation here is abhorrent; strongly emphasizing social cohesion amongst a specific group over much more valuable principles.
- libria 5y agoLike the featured article, HN threads - then and now - are pretty low-key in regards to participant introductions. Usernames are just text, no flair or qualifiers so the focus is on the speaker's content itself. `libria` is free to converse with `cperciva` as an equal peer which is nice, because most other IRL forums I'd be acutely aware that's not the case ;)
- Hallucinaut 5y agoI like the part where someone calls cperciva's idea bad, he says what's bad about it then the founder of Dropbox replies saying they're just starting and it sounds like they're in the same space. Pretty good bad idea
- ksec 5y agoInteresting this reply and one above are from accounts that is rather new.